Whew, I need to get out and Railfan. It's hard to do with a 6 month old, and I have some deep archives, but this is getting silly. It's 2005 and somewhere near West Chicago Il. This Westbound mixed freight is being held down by 2 SD40-2s that CLEARLY used to be C&NW units. Their cab signals make them the lead on many freights on this section of the transcon.
The Ohio River Sub. just now getting back to normal.No trains last Friday and Saturday, because of trees from storm.Sunday and Monday the crews had to flag the road crossings.Late Monday evening they put portable generators at the major crossings.Most of the power back on by Wednesday. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_yGeq3rQxr8/T_bjpefJJiI/AAAAAAAAIwE/_-9VX_aKwc4/s800/IMG_0542.JPG Curtis
My old home town railroad from growing up in Wisconsin. There is still stuff out there for it if you look.
Ah, the memories. Two days 'til Endsville. At 0001 hours, March 1, 1980, the final embargo would take effect and abandonment would begin. Two days before, it is cold, foggy, soggy and has been pouring rain. The Bellingham (WA) switcher is tied up at their old roundhouse. There is a feeling of both sadness and tragedy in the air:
OK. What is it? If an actual RR structure, the first thing comning into my mind is a flag stop type shelter. But, that's just a wild guess.
Some shots from goosefest All the Geese on Friday Morning. #7 Cruising out onto the turntable. As a museum Volunteer, I got to ride in #5 during its shakedown run on Friday. Pretty empty compared to the next 2 days. From on board #5 on the turntable.
Back on June 2 I stopped in Bailey, CO to get photos of a RR Bridge and Caboose that had been moved to there heritage park and I saw this gazebo and didn't give it a second thought. Then while doing some research on the Colorado and Southern here was a photo from Glen Isle, CO of their C&S Wait Station and sure enough I knew where I had saw it. I later learned that one existed in Glen Isle, CO and another in Grousemont, CO and both were nearly lost to neglect. They salvaged what they could of both to make one and that one is this building.
Aha! I was right. I'd wager that very few of these exist at all, anywhere in the USA today. A large number went away before the Great Depression.
No trains themselves this past week, but I did get some shots of the CSX bridge over the Santee river near Andrews, SC. This used to be an old SAL line between Charleston, SC and Hamlet, NC. You can see the rest of the pictures at https://picasaweb.google.com/111586244029690756195/SanteeRiverRRTrestleAtHwy41
Well, I was planning to throw up an older picture of a CNW SD40-2 that I took when I was in High School to round out the weekend and low and behold, as I drove my wife over to Denio's, I saw 8701 sitting in the Diesel servicing facility. I came back later with the camera and they were using her to hostle engines around the facility. Not sure what she was doing west of the Missourah, but this Chicago boy was glad to see her.
Our first runby, July 7, on the City of Prineville, OR, with the Mt. Emily Shay No. 1. Safeties popped and lots of smoke, in the yard.
Decatur Junction #3054, a former Santa Fe GP20 sits just east of Decatur Illinois on a hot July 4th, 2012. The locomotive and sister unit, also a former Santa Fe GP20 are tied down on this former Illinois Central line. A line that used to go from Champaign and all the way south to Centralia is now segmented into small sections. Decatur Junction now operates a small section from Cisco IL, to Assumption IL.
